MSNBC Host Caught Using Anti-Gay Slurs to Describe Republicans

Unearthed blog posts by MSNBC’s Joy Reid have seemingly revealed another side to the outspoken liberal TV host.

Running a blog called “The Reid Report” around a decade ago, Reid, who was also writing for the Miami Herald at the time, made numerous homophobic comments in her blog entries during 2007, 2008 and 2009. The comments were in reference to then-Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.

“The Reid Report” is no longer up, but articles from the defunct blog can be accessed using the Wayback Machine, an Internet archiving service, according to Mediaite.

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It was a Twitter user who originally pointed out the bigoted comments made by Reid.

1/x From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid authored a dozen homophobic posts not only attempting to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for being so.

She repeatedly referred to him as "Miss Charlie" and tagged posts about him under "gay politicians." (thread) pic.twitter.com/tRYvJ3lTc8

Reid claimed at the time that Crist was a closeted gay man who only married women to further his political career.

In her entries, she incessantly referred to the former governor as “Miss Charlie” and mockingly used tags such as “gay politicians” and “not gay politicians.”

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In a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact, Reid asserted that Crist’s marriages to women — he has been married twice — were part of an elaborate coverup to protect his political standing.

Reid didn’t just allege that Crist is gay — she also attacked him for it. “Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie. Stop pretending, brother. It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies,” the liberal pundit wrote in a 2007 post.

In another blog entry, Reid wrote, “Now that he’s married to a girl, Charlie Crist is being sought out for all KINDS of good stuff. … (The GOP) are wooing Miss Charlie to run.”

The blogs were in reference to then-Gov. Crist and his anticipated 2010 Senate run, where he ultimately lost to now-Sen. Marco Rubio. Crist is currently a Democrat representative from Florida’s 13th Congressional District.

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In her blog posts, Reid continued to conjure up even more conspiracies about Crist’s sexuality.

In one post, she claimed that the former Republican governor spent his honeymoon checking out men and cringing at the thought of sleeping with his wife.

“I can just see poor Charlie on the honeymoon, ogling the male waiters and thinking to himself, ‘god, do I actually have to see her naked…?’” she wrote.

In that same post, Reid joked that Crist was having sex with Sen. John McCain and that the Arizona Republican was the reason why he got married to a woman again, as it would somehow help him become McCain’s 2008 presidential running mate.

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Reid concluded that this is why gay men should stay in the closet, writing, “When a gay politician gets married, it usually indicates that he is highly ambitious, and desires to put himself in a position to move up the power ladder.”

Altogether, her remarks were spread throughout 12 of her blog posts. She uses the term, “Miss Charlie” a total of 17 times, according to Mediaite.

Reid — who vehemently identifies as a pro-LGBT advocate on her MSNBC weekend show “AM Joy” — provided an apology after her past blogs were uncovered.

“At no time have I intentionally sought to demean or harm the LGBT community, which includes people whom I deeply love. My goal, in my ham-handed way, was to call out potential hypocrisy,” Reid said in a statement provided to Mediaite.

“Nonetheless, as someone who is not a member of the LGBT community, I regret the way I addressed the complex issue of the closet and speculation on a person’s sexual orientation with a mocking tone and sarcasm. It was insensitive, tone deaf and dumb. There is no excusing it – not based on the taste-skewing mores of talk radio or the then-blogosphere, and not based on my intentions,” she continued.

Reid went on to say that her remarks against Crist were in part because of his “anti-LGBT” positions as governor.